Question

how many amino acid units form a peptide?

Answer 1

there are 22 i think

Answer 2

R U PRECISE MISS?

Answer 3

well its kinda of a tricky question too

Answer 4

SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THAT IT DEPENDS ON THE PROTEIN? IS THAT SO?

Answer 5

Most natural polypeptide chains contain between 50 and 2000 amino acid residues too.

Answer 6

but your not asking for residues right?

Answer 7

NO MAAM, IM NOT...JUST THE ACTUAL

Answer 8

A tripeptide composed of three different amino acids can be made in 6 different constitutions, and the tetrapeptide is composed of four different amino acids) would have 24 constitutional isomers. When all twenty of the natural amino acids are possible components of a peptide, the possible combinations are enormous. Simple statistical probability indicates that the decapeptides made up from all possible combinations of these amino acids would total 2010!.c. Yea this is a tricky one but this is what I rem. but I would do some more investigating to make sure.

Answer 9

IMPRESSIVE...I GIVE YOU KUDOS FOR YOUR DECERNING EXPLANATION..SO YOU ARE SAYING THAT THE STRUCTURAL ISOMERS OF AMINO ACIDS ALSO PLAY A ROLE IN THE PRODUCTIONS OF PROTEIN... QUITE LIKE THE DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF CHROMOSOMES IN MEIOSIS'S PROPHASE STAGE...ISNT IT?...

Answer 10

@trybijade, the number of available amino acid species for protein formation is 22. However these species can be repeated and arranged in any possible way imaginable. Therefore there is no specific number. It could be anything from 200 to 20000. Thus making the possible number of amino acids uncomputably high

Answer 11

IS IT THE ISOMERS THAT WILL DO THE REPAETING OR IS IT JUST A MERE REARRANGMNT OF THE ORIGINAL AMINO ACIDS THAT BRING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE? AND WILL THIS CHANGE BRING ABOUT DIFFERENT PROTEINS OR THE SAME ONES